"Vienna is not Los Angeles. My work came out of kids' television in Los Angeles. I didn't go through Catholicism and World War II as a teenager, I didn't live in a European environment. People make references to Viennese art without really questioning the fact that there is a big difference between ketchup and blood. I never thought of my work as shamanistic. My work is more about being a clown than a shaman."
—Paul McCarthy
"Paul McCarthy Head Space: Drawings 1963–2019" is at the UCLA Hammer Museum through May 10, 2020.
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